Thanks, that was helpful.
Dave Thompson-4 wrote: > >> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of brechmos >> Sent: Thursday, 12 March, 2009 17:55 > >> Yeah, I appreciate that. >> >> What I can't see in the docs is how the key and IV is defined from the >> password and if I can do that without calling the openssl enc >> call. If the >> key and IV were from an md5 then I could do "echo '1234' | openssl md5". >> But it isn't md5 and I can't figure out what it is... >> > It is by default based on md5, but is not just md5. > Specifically it is the routine EVP_BytesToKey, > which (at least in 0.9.8) has a section-3 manpage. > Since the details of key derivation (in general) > are fiddly, you might prefer to look at the source > which is in $distdir/crypto/evp/evp_key.c . > <snip> > >> >> Dave Thompson-4 wrote: > <snip: previous question about providing the passphrase to 'enc'.> > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/PBE-Key-creation-tp22476230p22558457.html Sent from the OpenSSL - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
